When first written about, they lived on the west bank of the Mississippi River, just south of New Orleans.
[2] In December 1729, following an attack by the Natchez on Fort Rosalie the prior month, French colonists feared a widespread Indian rebellion or a combined revolt by Native Americans and enslaved people.
The governor of Louisiana, Étienne Perier, ordered a force of 80 enslaved Africans under the command of Louis Tixerant, a Company of the Indies warehouse keeper, to massacre the Chaouacha community,[3][4] rewarding the men by freeing them from slavery.
[5] The French killed at least seven Chaouacha men and kidnapped women and children whom they took to New Orleans.
[4] An 1802 mention by French colonist Baudry de Lozières describes them as "Tchaouachas: Reduced to 40 warriors.